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Content ArticleSince the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report To Err is Human, it has been known that upwards of 100,000 deaths due to preventable medical errors occur each year. In the twenty years since then, little progress has been made in the way of reducing the number of these deaths and estimates now suggest between 200- 440,000 Americans are dying preventably each year. One major component many believe is lacking in the United States is a national agency that focuses on responsibility and accountability for patient safety. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has published a white paper assessing the feasibility of creating a National Patient Safety Board to reduce preventable medical errors in facilities across the country.
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Content ArticleThe NHS Leadership Academy recognises the crucial importance of effective, engaged, accountable board leadership and has commissioned this refreshed edition of ‘The Healthy NHS Board 2013 - Principles for Good Governance’. This guidance supports the NHS Leadership Academy’s mission to develop outstanding leadership in health in order to improve people’s health and their experience of the NHS.
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Content ArticleAt the second annual Patient Safety Learning conference, held on 2 October 2019, we interviewed Tom Kark QC. QEB Hollis Whiteman and Verita, Tom joined a conversation with Ted Baker and Dr Elaine Maxwell on the topic of 'Leadership for patient safety'.
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Content ArticleThis podcast, is the first in a series, produced by Catalysis, about how to change organisational culture. This episode focuses on board engagement and the support a board needs to offer management during cultural transformation.
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Content ArticleA careful planning for a pandemic, like COVID-19, is critical to protecting the health and welfare of entire humanity. Hospitals play a very critical role within the health system in providing essential medical care to the community, particularly during the crisis. But hospitals are complicated and vulnerable institutions, dependent on crucial external support and supply lines. During the current outbreak, an interruption of these critical support services and supplies would potentially disrupt the provision of acute health care by an unprepared health-care facility. Any shortage of critical equipment and supplies could limit access to the needed care and have a direct impact on healthcare delivery and panic could potentially jeopardise established working routines. In such scenario, even a modest rise in admission volume can overwhelm a hospital beyond its functional reserve. Even for a well-prepared hospital, coping with the health consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak would be a complex challenge for sure. WHO hospital readiness checklist shows the key actions to take in the context of a continuous hospital emergency preparedness process.
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Content ArticleThis is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Dan talks to us about how his experiences as a paediatrician and military doctor have influenced his view of patient safety. He also describes the increasing complexity in healthcare systems and highlights the need for the Government to commit policy and resources to building and sustaining the NHS workforce.
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Content ArticleIn 2020, all NHS organisations were instructed to name a single executive board member as their senior responsible person for tackling health inequalities. Across the NHS, there should now be over 450 dedicated health equality named leads in healthcare organisations. This report published by the independent NHS Race & Health Observatory in collaboration with The King’s Fund sets out recommendations to help ensure senior NHS officials responsible for improving health inequalities are able to make a difference.
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Content ArticleIn healthcare, telling stories brings benefits to both storytellers and audience members, but also presents risks of harm. A reflective storytelling practice aims to honour stories and storytellers by ensuring there is time to prepare, reflect, learn, ask questions, and engage in dialogue with the storyteller to explore what went well and where there are learning and improvement opportunities. Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) is a pan-Canadian health organisation focused on improving the quality and safety of care in Canada. The HEC Patient Engagement and Partnerships team have co-developed these recommendations on how best to meaningfully share stories from those leading, providing and receiving care at Board meetings. This Case Study outlines the process HEC used to co-develop storytelling recommendations, focusing on a trauma-informed approach to create safe spaces for preparing, learning from and reflecting on stories, to clearly articulate their purpose, and to ensure the locus of control for storytelling rests with the storytellers.
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